triagonal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Irregular formation of trigonal, after tetragonal etc.

Adjective[edit]

triagonal (comparative more triagonal, superlative most triagonal)

  1. Triangular.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXIX:
      [T]he greatest part of the face, nay, of the head, was nothing else but two large and protuberant bunches […] shap'd into a multitude of small Hemispheres, plac'd in a triagonal order […].
    • 2005, LazyTown (TV series), "Dear Diary" (season 1, episode 16): "The Mine Song"
      This mailbox is mine / And this triagonal sign. / That blue balloon, the month of June. / They're mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.